The statement by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, who claims to be ready to “go to autonomy”, demonstrates the anxiety of the executive in the face of rising violence.
After two weeks of events and violent clashes with law enforcement, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, moves in Corsica Wednesday 16th and Thursday, March 17th. It is up to him that the “Corsican record” when the island has embraced since Avan Colonna, sentenced to the perpetuity for the assassination of the Prefect Claude Erignac, on February 6, 1998 in Ajaccio, was Agaressed on March 2, by a codéri in the central house of Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône) and is in the coma.
Renings with a lost tradition, the minister deputy the good offices of a “Mr. Corsica”: Grégory Canal, a 46-year-old sub-prefect, senior official at the Ministry of the Interior. Three weeks of the presidential election, the mission entrusted to Mr. Darmanin is akin to a dangerous demining operation. “We are ready to go to autonomy,” he promised, Wednesday, in an interview in Corse-morning. But, he warns, “there can be no dialogue in violence. The return to calm is a sine qua non”.
This word that the street obtained from a minister in less than a fortnight, the president of the Corsican executive, Gilles Simeoni, tried to tear him with Emmanuel Macron five years. A story of misunderstandings, missed opportunities, mutual rebuffs. The two men, however, share common features: an image, a certain charisma, a propensity to “at the same time”. On the island, it is even claimed that Mr. Simeoni invented “macronism” without wanting, in 2014, when the former Yvan Colonna lawyer boasts local political clans by rallying to his cause of right-wing colors and on the left to delight the town hall of Bastia to the powerful family of Zuccarelli, in power for nearly two centuries.
Reciprocal challenges
This victory offered the speaker, a profession-shaped lawyer by years of pleadings, an ideal step for the conquest of regional power, successful eighteen months later when he moved to the head of the executive council of the Corsica community. It will be re-elected in 2017 then in 2021, without blowing, a plebiscite that does not disarm the critics: an atone governance and the absence of accomplishments after six years of a reign without great sharing. His ancient “brothers” independently, especially, who had accompanied his victorious strategy before being dismissed in 2021, reproach him for having abandoned them on the way to complaining the Elysée, who had made that break. One of the standard relationship conditions with the Corsican executive.
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